This story provides indicators on the cost of transportation for shipping grain from the U.S. to Japan

This data shows the weekly cost indices of transporting grain by each mode: truck, rail, barge, and ocean-going vessels. The base of each index (set to 100) is the average of monthly costs in the year 2000. For truck, the base rate is $1.49 per gallon. For unit train, the base rate is $1,815.15 per railcar, including the tariff and fuel surcharges (weekly changes reflect the month tariff rate plus fuel surcharge, and weekly secondary railcar market bids). For shuttle train, the base rate is $2,338.28 per railcar, including the tariff and fuel surcharges (weekly changes reflect the month tariff rate plus fuel surcharge, and weekly secondary railcar market bids). For barge, the base rate is 180 and is based on Illinois River barge rates (see Downbound Grain Barge Rates dataset for more information). For the Gulf-to-Japan ocean route, the base rate is $22.36/metric ton. For the Pacific Northwest-to-Japan ocean route, the base rate is $14.10/metric ton.

The data shows grain prices at select inland origin points and export destination ports and the price spread between them. More specifically, this dataset compares interior prices of corn in Illinois and Nebraska with the Gulf; Iowa and Gulf soybean prices; Kansas and Gulf hard red winter wheat; and North Dakota and Portland hard red spring wheat.

This data shows the weekly cost of transporting grain in each mode; truck, rail, barge and ocean-going vessels.

The dataset contains quarterly and annual grain transportation costs and total landed costs for shipping corn, wheat, and soybeans from Minnesota, North Dakota, and Kansas from the U.S. Gulf and Pacific Northwest to Japan. The data specifically show rail, ocean, barge, and trucking rates for shipping grain to Japan. The total landed costs include transportation costs and farm values for each grain

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This story shows Brazilian transportation costs of moving grain from inland elevators to ports and for export to Europe and China.

The data shows the price spread between select grain inland origin points and export destination ports.

This dataset provides quarterly truck rates for select Brazilian soybean-export routes (designated by origin and destination).

This dataset is also used to calculate a weighted-average truck rate, which can be viewed here: https://agtransport.usda.gov/d/i4ty-m7hq. A share associated with each row is used to define the weight of a given route's freight price in the composition of the weighted freight index. This calculation is made based on the quantity of production in the route's mesoregion as that quantity relates to the total produced by all mesoregions considered in the project. In 2020, the selected mesoregions represented about 81 percent of national production, so the shares will not sum to one.

The chart below shows the annual averages for total landed and transportation costs for shipping grain to Japan